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Snake Eater (1989) -- Ex-marine Jack Kelly goes home to become a police officer to find the villains who killed his parents and kidnapped his sister.

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Writers:
Michael Paseornek (screenplay) &
John Dunning (screenplay)
Release Date:
31 March 1989 (Canada) more
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To him, America is just another jungle. more
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Cast

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Lorenzo Lamas ... Jack Kelly 'Soldier'
Josie Bell ... The Kid
Robert Scott ... Junior
Ronnie Hawkins ... King
Cheryl Jeans ... Jennifer
Larry Csonka ... Bronsky

Ben DiGregorio ... Santucci
Mowava Pryor ... Chloe

Ron Palillo ... Torchy
Bob Piedalve ... Harold
Jackie Lesage ... Dorothy
Matthew Mabe ... Eli
Barry Minshull ... Slim (as Barry Minshell)
Carl Cook ... Clyde
Sandra Brown ... Sissy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Soldier (Europe: English title) (video title)
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91 min
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Fun Stuff

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Continuity: When Soldier and Kid are bound into sleeping bags, the ropes change position several times between shots. more
Quotes:
Jack Kelly 'Soldier': Those mutants know a lot more than they're saying. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) (VG) more
Soundtrack:
Soldier more

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Only in the 80's could a movie called Snake Eater NOT be a porn..., 19 July 2006
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Author: Frank Markland from United States

Lorenzo Lamas stars as Soldier, a police officer and former marine (I'm guessing a Grenada vet) who unleashes the fury of hell at the expense of hillbilly rednecks who for some reason kill innocent families. (We are never offered an explanation, although i'm guessing that it is because of a lack of anything to do.) For some reason I was "blessed" with receiving all three Snake Eater movies on DVD, of course when you are in a movie club, you often times get stuff you don't ask for. While I never asked for this title, I wasn't all that upset. Indeed the title is a good chuckle since it sounds more like a porn then it does an action movie. Plus the movie is utterly ridiculous, I mean this is a movie where Lamas tries to stop a gang of gun wielding psychopaths with only a hunting knife. Although he finds a gun in the water, which he stupidly lost in the first place. (Seriously you are armed to blitz a gang of mutant hillbillies and you lose your gun!) Of course the Rambo heroics are brought full circle with lame acting, over the top action and below standard production values. Was actually made for television, and although the movie is fairly stupid, there are moments of such absurdity that this could very well have been the best TV show since the A-team. Of course what we are left with in the end is yet another Lorenzo Lamas lunkhead action flick. Let it be said though this is more interesting then his other efforts. At least what I have seen. (Not much.)

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